Annie Lennox Quotes
I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.
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Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.
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I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.
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I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
